[This information is from Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800 by Jonathan Pearson (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1873). It is in the Schenectady Collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 929.1 P36c, and copies are also available for borrowing.]

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"Persons interested will find little difficulty in tracing back their pedigrees to the First Settlers, by keeping in mind the following facts. The names of all sons who subsequently became heads of families (so far as the compiler could find), are printed in italics: the husbands of daughters and the parents of both husbands and wives are in all cases mentioned when discoverable."

Veeder

SIMON VOLKERTSE VEEDER, alias de Bakker, born in 1624, belonged to the ship Prince Maurice in 1644, which ship plied between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam; 1652 he bought a lot and settled in the latter city; sold the same in 1654 for 30 beavers, removed to Beverwyck, and from thence to Schenectady in 1662. He owned a bouwery on the Great flat numbered 9, containing 24 morgens, and a village lot on the north corner of State and Ferry Streets. He also owned land on the Normanskil, made his will Jan. 8, 1696/7, and spoke of the following Ch: Pieter; Gerrit; Johannes; Volkert; Volkie, m. Barent Janse Wemp; Geesie, m. Jan Hendrickse Vrooman; Magdalena, m. Willem Appel.

PIETER, eldest son of Simon Volkertse, m. Neeltie, dau. of Claas Van der Volgen, June 17, 1704. At the date of his last child's baptism, June 26, 1709, he was not living. His father gave him land on the Normanskil. Ch. bp: Simon, Dec. 30, 1704; Maria, Feb. 19, 1707, in Albany, m. Johannes Vedder; Pieter, June 26, 1709, in Albany.

GERRIT, son of Simon, m. Tryntje, dau. of Helmer Otten, Aug. 3, 1690, in Albany. She was the only child of Otten, who d. in 1675, after which her mother m. Reyer Schermerhorn. Gerrit Simonse owned the land about Veeder's mills early in the 18th century and had a lease from the church of the mill privilege in 1718. Through his wife he obtained possession of lots in the village on the north and west corners of Union and Church Streets; made his will March 12, 1746/7, proved July 8, 1755. Ch. b: Helmers, Oct. 22, 1690; Wilhelmus; Engeltie, in Albany, July 22, 1693, m. Johannes Vedder; Ariaantje, Nov. 16, 1695, m. Daniel Danielse Van Antwerpen; Hendricus, Aug. 3, 1698; Simon, Dec. 31, 1700; Annatie, Aug. 16, 1703, m. William Bancker; Cornelis, Jan. 27, 1706; Helena (Magdalena), April 2, 1710, m. Johannes Bancker.

JOHANNES, son of Simon, m. first, Susanna, dau. of Myndert Wemp, Nov. 19, 1697, and secondly, Susanna Wendell of Albany, June 3, 1718. She was buried in the church in Albany, Nov. 16, 1739. By his father's will he received land on the Normanskil, he also bought part of Jan Hendrickse Van Bael's patent there; made his will July 15, 1746, and spoke of the following Ch. except Ariaantje, also of his step-son Luykas Johannese Wyngaard: Ch. bp: Debora, June 20, 1698; Engeltie, Oct. 27, 1700, m. Jacobus De La Grange; Debora, Jan. 17, 1703, m. first, Reyer Wemp, secondly, Douwe Fonda; Maria, April 1, 1705; Myndert, April 30, 1707; Simon, Oct. 30, 1709; Ariaantje, May 31, 1719.

VOLKERT, son of Symon, m. Jannetie, dau. of Reyer Schermerhorn, August 6, 1698, in Albany. In 1719 the sheriff of Albany seized two pieces of Strouds in his house and condemned them to be sold and disposed of according to the Albany city charter. By the will of his father be received farm No. 9 on the Bouwland; he made his will August 4, 1733, d. Aug. 12, 1733. Excepting Engeltje, the following Ch. were then living: Ch. bp: Simon, Dec. 28, 1698; Ariaantje, Aug. 18, 1700, m. Willem Daasen; Reyer, Dec. 28, 1701; Engeltie, Nov. 7, 1703; Reyer, Oct. 28, 1705; Catalyntje, Feb. 8, 1708; Magdalena, Oct. 30, 1709, in Albany; Susanna, April 20, 1712, in Albany, m. Harmanus Vedder; Johannes, May 23, 1714, in Albany; Catalyntje, Jan. 1, 1716, m. Simon Veeder; Hendericus, Oct. 5, 1717; Hendericus, July (?) 9, 1719.

HELMERS, son of Gerrit, m. Anna, dau. of Jan Mebie, July 19, 1715. In 1713 he owned a lot 200ft. square on the west corner of Union and Church Streets. From his father he received half of the saw mill at "Veeder's mills." Ch. b: Gerrit, April 7, 1716; Johannes, b. and bp June 2, 1718; Catharina, Aug. 20, 1720, m. Jacobus Van Eps; Anna, Dec. 1, 1722, m. Rev. Johannes Schuyler; Simon; Hendericus; Petrus, July 30, 1732; Maria, Oct. 27, 1734.

WILHELMUS, son of Gerrit Symonse, m. Annatie Mebie. He received from his father half of the saw mill at "Veeder's mills," was not mentioned in his father's will 1746/7 then probably deceased. Ch. b: Hendericus, Feb. 20, 1725; Margariet, Aug. 18, 1727.

HENRICUS, son of Gerrit Symonse, m. Elisabeth Wemp, Aug. 18, 1750. He received a conveyance of the "Veeder's mills" from his mother July 11, 1752; from his father a lot on the north corner of Union and Church Streets, which passed to his dau. Catharina, wife of Jillis Fonda; made his will March 3, 1790, his wife, son Gerrit and dau. Catharina then living. Ch: Gerrit Symonse, b. July 4, 1751; Abraham, bp. Dec. 27, 1753; Catharina, bp. June 29, 1755, m. Jillis Fonda; Abraham, bp. April 9, 1758; Volkje, bp. Aug. 5, 1759.

CLAAS, son of Pieter, m. Catarina, dau. of Johannes Van Eps, Feb. 5, 1757. He made his will July 26, proved Sept. 1, 1810, spoke of his wife Catharine and sons John and Pieter C., John to have half the farm 6 miles south of Schenectady called "Het Dunkere Bos," 70 acres in all, and Pieter to have pasture land on "Simon Groot's kil" (now College brook), called Teunis Van Vleck's pasture, four acres. His house was on the lot bounded by Front, Green and Ferry Streets, which his son Johannes inherited. He was b. Feb. 9, 1734, d. Nov. 11, 1807, a. 73ys., 9m., 2d.; his wife d. October, 1815. Ch. bp: Maria, June 19, 1757; Johannes, Oct. 18, 1761; Pieter, Nov. 17, 1765; Johannes, July 24, 1768; Pieter, March 26, 1775.

Ventan (Fenton?)

Vergern

Verwy

TRYNTJE, a refugee from Woestine after the massacre of 1690.

Viele

CORNELIS CORNELISE, early settled in Schenectady, where, in company with Claas Frederickse Van Petten, he bought Marten Cornelise Van Isselsteyn's bouwery in 1668; 1670 he sold his moiety consisting of 12 morgens, 130 rods, with house, barn, two ricks and garden to Jurriaen Teunise Tappen of Albany, taking in exchange a house and lot in Albany on the west corner of State and Pearl Streets; three years later be sold this house and lot to Richard Pretty, sheriff; 1671 he was a licensed tapster in Schenectady; 1677 received a grant of 34 acres of land by patent on the Steene kill, about four miles west of Schenectady, and on the south side of the Mohawk River. His wife was Suster …… Ch: Arnout; Cornelis; Pieter; Volkert, bp. Dec. 1, 1689; Jannetie, wife of Johannes Dyckman; Debora, wife of Daniel Ketelhuyn.

PIETER CORNELISE, brother of Cornelis, also settled in Schenectady, where, in company with Elias Van Gyseling, he purchased Bastiaan De Winter's bouwery in 1670. His wife was Jacomyntje, dau. of Teunis Swart. Ch: Teunis; Lowis; and one or more daus. His wife m. secondly, Benony Arentse Van Hoek, who was killed by the French and Indians in 1690; and thirdly, Cornelis Vinhout of Ulster County, where she was living as late as 1700.

ARNOUT, son of Cornelis, lived in Albany; for many years he was the provincial interpreter, attending the yearly gathering of the natives at Albany, and frequently visiting them in the then western wilderness. On account of their high esteem for him, and as a recognition of the value of his services, the Mohawks, in 1683, gave him a parcel of land above Schenectady, on the north side of the river called Wachkeerhoha. In 1687 he was taken prisoner by the French as he was on his way to Ottawa to trade. Espousing the cause of Leisler in opposition to Col. Ingoldsby he was turned out of his office, after which he retired to Long Island, but being held "in great esteem by the Indians," and being "a good and faithful interpreter," he was soon recalled to the office of Indian interpreter. He m. Geeritje Gerritse of Amsterdam in 1617. Ch: Aernout; Wilempie, wife of Simon Jacobse Schermerhorn; Maria, who m. first, Matthys Vrooman, and secondly Douwe Aukes
of Schenectady, 1685. His son Aernout was carried away by the Indians Feb. 9, 1690. 1692/3, Feb. 16, "upon which we marched about two miles where a Christian boy, Aernout the interpreter's son, came to us, who had been three years a prisoner among the French."

CORNELIS CORNELISE, chirurgeon, m. Catharina Bogardus in New York, April 24, 1693. He was then a widower. In 1698 he was admitted freeman of the city. Ch. bp. in New York: Sara, April 24, 1695; Cornelis, Dec. 16, 1702.

Col. FREDERIC, son of Harmen, m. Gezina, dau. of Daniel De Graaf. May 22, 1780, the Visscher house at Caughnawaga was attacked by Sir John Johnson's party, and Capt. Johannes and Harmen Visscher were killed and Col. Frederic was left for dead, but afterwards he recovered, as also did his mother, who was struck down by a blow from a musket. [Simms's History.] Col. Visscher d. June 9, 1809; his wife d. in 1815. Ch. b: Harmen, June 4, 1769; Gezina, July 14, 1771; Daniel, Sept. 2, 1773; Willem Brouwer and Catrina, b. May 19, 1776; Harmen, April 4, 1780; Johannes, Dec. 16, 1784.